NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Students at a Christian elementary school in eastern Uganda fear for their lives after a Muslim posing as a Christian teacher attacked the school director, sources said. Some of the children at Hope of Glory International Nursery and Primary School have been afraid to return to class after Mugooda Siraji […]
Muslim Posing as Christian Teacher at School in Uganda Attacks Director, Sources Say
Students afraid to return to class.
November 16, 2017 By -
Christians Charged with Serious Crimes after Hindu Extremists, Police Detain Children in India
Christians were making routine, annual train trip to Bible conference.
November 14, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Two Christians face charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion in India after Hindu extremists attacked them and children on their way to a youth Bible conference by train, sources said. The Hindu extremists later savagely beat Christian parents trying to regain custody of their children at a police station, the […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Ambush, Kill Nine Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
Three others injured, sources say.
November 10, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nine Christians were buried in north-central Nigeria yesterday after Muslim Fulani herdsmen ambushed and killed them earlier this week, sources said. The victims, all members of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN), were buried after a funeral service in Plateau state’s Riyom Local Government Area. They were killed, and […]
Decade after Church Burnings in Nigeria, Officials Forbid Rebuilding
Muslims continue hostile environment for Christians.
November 8, 2017 By -
KANO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A decade after Muslims attacked and displaced Christians in a town in northern Nigeria, Kano state officials have forbidden church buildings to be rebuilt there, sources said. Eight church buildings destroyed in late September 2007 in predominantly Muslim Tudun Wada Dankadai, Kano state, are still in ruins, a Morning Star […]
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Southern India after ‘Miraculous’ Conversions
Assailants were masked, but they had threatened him before, he says.
November 5, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26, was in a coma for 48 hours after the drunken Hindu extremists beat him […]
Officials, Police in Tamil Nadu State, India Halt Worship in 10 Churches
Hindu extremists compel authorities to act.
November 1, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India, have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in Coimbatore District to stop worship unless they obtain permission from the collector’s office, and the extremists intend to […]
Christian Woman, Son and Daughter Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
In country’s southwest, priest slain after being kidnapped.
October 30, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her two children were killed in north-central Nigeria last week, three days after a kidnapped priest was slain by his abductors in the southwestern part of the country, sources said. Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Oct. 24) ambushed and shot to death Rebecca Daniel Choji, […]
Two Pastors in Burma Sentenced to Prison
No basis for conviction of Baptist leaders, sources say.
October 29, 2017 By -
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Two assistant pastors arrested by the Burma (Myanmar) army last December were sentenced to prison on Friday (Oct. 27) on false charges of unlawful association, defaming the military and spying, sources said. Pastor Dom Dawng Nawng Latt, 65, received a prison term of four years and three months, and fellow […]
Torture of Pastor in India Ruins Livelihood, Hearing – but Not His Faith
Hindu extremists pressure police to file false charge against couple, sources say.
October 27, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Uttar Pradesh, India has lost hearing in one ear after Hindu extremists tortured him, pressured police to falsely charge him and prevented doctors from treating him, sources said. Pastor Abhay Sagar, 37, of Biswan town in Sitapur District in the northern state, was about to begin preaching on […]
Christians Recount Terror of Herdsmen’s Nine-Day Massacre in Plateau State, Nigeria
Muslim Fulani assailants aided by armed terrorists, survivor says.
October 25, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The church elder in Plateau state, Nigeria saw the Muslim Fulani herdsmen storm into his village at 11 p.m. the night of Oct. 13, shooting in all directions. “Every one of us ran to save his life,” Dauda Samuel Kadiya, 38, of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Zanwrua, […]